1. Restrain your tears and hold back your sighs
Though grief fills your heart and your chest

2. Al-Husayn is not pleased when you lose control
Though the tragedy was undoubtedly severe

3. So show patience and draw strength from him
To restore your calm and make you steadfast

4. Was he not exemplary in every ordeal?
Bearing his terrible fate with resilience

5. Though they killed Al-Husayn, his name
Will live forever in eternal glory

6. His noble pages will not be folded away
But rather unfold to encompass the ages

7. O symbol of life, inspire in us
Unwavering courage in times of distress

8. The night of our torment grew long but then
You rose like the dawn, bright and luminous

9. We almost buried hope until you came
And resurrected it, giving rebirth

10. You were true to your covenant, the most faithful
The purest and most honest person on earth

11. You stood by truth when others betrayed it
And kept your promises and vows

12. When they broke faith out of hatred
You still stood by them as their ally

13. It is not your fault that they broke their word
Or made promises to you they didn't keep

14. The day you fell only raised your worth
While their triumph was but a deceit

15. You were like a scale weighted with loyalty
While they were a scale weighted with treachery

16. You fell and were like lightning upon them
Igniting their greed and avarice aflame

17. Thus the sword is most effective when falling
And the most famous blows are those it lays

18. You told how the Quraysh approached Muhammad
Offering him immense wealth and property,

19. Saying: "Desist from your preaching,
And you can be king or ruler if you wish."

20. He replied, with tears of thanks in his eyes
Watering the sapling of hope:

21. "By God, even if you placed the sun and moon
Directly into my hands,

22. I would not abandon my preaching
Even if attaining it seemed difficult.

23. O Master of Kingship, you are a pillar of glory
That turns away from deviance and disgrace."

24. For us, you prepared Ali in his old age
A venerable elder with hair white as light,

25. And the white hair made his crown more lustrous,
Radiating majesty, guidance and light.

26. You made your Successor like your father in valor
And your goodness resembled Ahmad's nobility.

27. When kingship seemed to you too constricting,
You cast it off as a garment too tight and short.

28. You claimed the hearts as your throne
When you removed your crown and throne.

29. You spurned the crown, deeming it an affliction,
While others bind crowns on themselves like shackles.

30. How many monarchs have mounted their thrones
As if descending into their graves!

31. Show me among their finery and pomp
A Farazdaq or Jarir in their midst!

32. You chose to be free though it made you captive,
So you could save us and redeem the prisoners.

33. Though captive you were noble and mighty
Like Caesar, Hisham and Anushirvan.

34. You raged for the Prophet's sake while alive
And were like an unsheathed sword in his defense.

35. You did not neglect him after death, but rather
Crouched at his tomb like a snarling lion.

36. You were sanctified when Taha's shoes
And earth kissed you and became fragrant.

37. You strove though you did not reach your goal,
But charted the path so we will never stray.